A Shotgun Divorce

Posted on September 9, 2009 by lmharnisch
Sept. 9, 1919, Schools

Sept. 9, 1919: Military schools are flourishing in Los Angeles.

Sept. 9, 1919, Shotgun

Someone came up behind Frank Gentile while he was sleeping on the couch and blew off the back of his head with a 16-gauge shotgun. Because he was Italian, police naturally assumed it was the work of mobsters. But no, further investigation discovers a double-barreled 16-gauge shotgun, recently fired, in a closet and Gentile's wife, Maggie, is charged.

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